The Origins of Life

The ultimate goal of this project is to create, under prebiotic conditions, a self-sustained cell that can uptake nutrients from the surrounding conditions to assure its growth, division and evolution. In our laboratory, we believe that minerals, which constitute the entire Earth, have played key roles in the emergence and evolution of the first cell or “protocell” and that at four different levels:

1- In the selection of lipid amphiphiles to form the fittest boundary.